71. The True Man.

No man can safely go abroad that does not love to stay at home; no man can safely speak that does not willingly hold his tongue; no man can safely govern that would not cheerfully become subject; no man can safely command that has not truly learned to obey; and no man can safely rejoice but he that has the testimony of a good conscience.

Thos. à Kempis, Germany, 1380-1471.

72. Submission.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow Him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

F. Quarles, England, 1592-1644.

73. True Greatness.

It is by what we ourselves have done, and not what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered

by after ages. It is thought that has aroused intellect from its slumbers, which has given "luster to virtue, and dignity to truth," or by those examples which have inflamed the soul with the love of goodness, and not by means of sculptured marble, that we hold communion with Shakspeare and Milton, with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and Wilberforce.

Francis Wayland, New York, 1796-1865.

74. The Humming Bird.

Where is the person who, on observing this glittering fragment of the rainbow, would not pause, admire, and instantly turn his mind with reverence towards the Almighty Creator, the wonders of whose hand we, at every step, discover, and of whose sublime conceptions we everywhere observe the manifes tations in His admirable system of creation.

J. J. Audubon, Louisiana, 1780-1851.

73. A New England Summer. Take the New England climate, in summer; you would think the world was coming to an end. Certain recent heresies on that subject may have had a natural origin there. Cold to-day; hot to-morrow; mercury at 80 degrees in the morning, with wind at southwest; and in three hours more a sea-turn, wind at east, a thick fog from the very bottom of the ocean, and a fall of forty degrees of Fahrenheit; now so dry as to kill all the beans in New Hampshire; then floods, carrying off the bridges of the Penobscot and Connecticut; snow in Portsmouth in July; and the next day a man and a yoke of oxen killed by lightning in Rhode Island. One would think the world was twenty times coming to an end! But I don't know how it is; we go along; the early and the latter rain falls, each in its season; seed-time and harvest do not fail; the sixty days of hot, corn weather are pretty

sure to be measured out to us. The Indian Summer, with its bland southwest, and mitigated sunshine, brings all up; and on the 25th of November, or thereabouts, being Thursday, millions of grateful people, in meeting-houses or around the family board, give thanks for a year of health, plenty, and happiness. Rufus Choate, Mass., 1799-1869.

76. General Intelligence,

When the means of education everywhere throughout our country shall be as free as the air we breathe; when every family shall have its Bible; then, and not till then, shall we exert our proper influence on the cause of man; then, and not till then, shall we be prepared to stand forth between the oppressor and the oppressed, and say to the proud wave of domination: "Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther."

Francis Wayland, New York, 1796-1865.

77. The True Monument.

No arch nor column in courtly English, or courtlier Latin, sets forth the deeds and the worth of the Father of his country; he needs them not; the unwritten benediction of millions cover all the walls.* No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine.

Edw. Everett, Mass., 1794-1865.

* At Mt. Vernon.

78. Beauty.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful. Every heroic action is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

R. W. Emerson, Mass., 1803—.

79. Benevolence,

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure all around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.

W. Irving, New York, 1783-1859.

80. Light and Sunshine

Don't keep a solemn parlor, into which you go but once a month with your parson or sewing society. Hang around your walls pictures, which shall tell stories of mercy, hope, courage, faith, and charity. Make your living room the largest and most cheerful in the house. Let the place be such that when your boy has gone to distant lands, or even when, perhaps, he clings to a single plank in the lone waters of the wide ocean, the thought of the still homestead shall come across the desolation, bringing always light, hope, and love. Have no dungeon about your house, no room you never open, no blinds that are always shut.

Donald G. Mitchell (lk Marvel), Conn., 1822-.

81. Greatness Promoted.

A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more to his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes, and falls off from him like a dead skin, and when they would triumph, lo, he has passed on invulnerable. As long as all that is said is against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

R. W. Emerson, Mass., 1803-.

82. Good Advice.

Be careful that you do not commend yourselves. It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you; and it is fulsome and unpleasing to others to hear such commendations. Speak well of the absent whenever you have a suitable opportunity. Never speak ill of them, or anybody, unless you are sure they deserve it, and unless it is necessary for their amendment or for the safety and benefit of others. Sir Matthew Hale, England, 1609-1676.